My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 271

ARES 3 solar day 268

Transcript – Hydraulic Telegraph Switch – ESA Maltimore Center ＜-＞ ESA spacecraft AMICITAS

AMICITAS: Amicitas calls Maltimore, uses the fireball suit to reply, completed.

ESA: Maltimore calls Amicitas, Fireball is great, I’m not used to seeing you sending messages, over.

AMICITAS: Mark's guys are going too far. They actually sent over their universe’s version of Trolls and Dungeons and ordered us to play it. complete.

ESA: Interesting. Why do they want you to play this? complete.

AMICITAS: EVA is restricted to the absolute minimum, just a daily trip to the cave farm and back, plus the issues that come with cabin fever. Mark's people say the game helps boost morale. complete.

ESA: What a great idea! Shared experiences are a powerful way to build friendships! complete.

AMICITAS: MD. Please, can I talk to Cocoon?

ESA: Suck it up, Fireball, and enjoy your nerdy game. And don’t complain again. You worked so hard to decode it and the result is that you are chirping and you are even more in need of a beating, you know. complete.

AMICITAS: I demand justice from the Dragon King! complete.

ESA: Ember will play a game with Spike and the others every month. No chance, sorry. complete.

AMICITAS: Can you rescue us within the next twelve hours? I beg you. complete.

ESA: Unlikely. Enjoy playing! Maltimore Newsletter ends.

"So," Mark asked, "since you also have a replica of Dungeons and Dragons, who among you has played it?"

Cherry Berry wasn't surprised at all when she saw Starlight Glimmer raising her hooves. Ogres and Oubliettes is a pretty nerdy hobby, and Starlight lives in the nerdy castle.

However, Spitfire also raised his hoof, which really surprised her. "Huh?" she couldn't help but ask, "Have you ever played... uh... D&D?"

Feihuo nodded towards Berry, then turned to Mark: "The pony named Qiqi is...is...the city lord. I don't play often. I only participate occasionally. The commander can't...can't...talk to his subordinates. Pony is too close.”

"But you've played it more than once, right?" Mark asked again.

Spitfire nodded.

"Okay. As for the rest of you, in the game you all have to play different characters who adventure in a magical fantasy world full of swords and monsters."

"Oh," Cherry Berry understood, and answered a little too briskly, "It's just like home."

"Never mind that," Mark continued, "NASA has sent a lot of pre-made - that is to say, already made - game characters for you to choose from. A well-balanced five-person team should include two combat classes, A magic user, a healer and a rogue. A class can be said to be a certain profession. Various characters are located in the D&D slash character slash prefab directory (D&D/characters/prefab). Let's open it first and take a look. "

After typing for a while, Berry asked, "What does alignment mean?"

"Arrangement generally represents the tendency of something relative to other things;" Mark replied, "and in the context of D&D, it means alignment, which is used to indicate a character's morality relative to lawful or chaotic versus good or Evil directed relations.”

"Give me an example?"

"Well," Max asked for a moment, "For example, Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Corrint are both lawful evil. They think it is important to follow the rules, but mainly because the rules are good for them. And Du The Krays are chaotic good. They don't pay much attention to the rules set by others, but they believe in doing things justice. The two police heroes are lawful good in most cases, but Hutch Bear ( Huggy Bear (Starsky & Hutch) is completely neutral. He's completely self-absorbed, but he also believes in the importance of righteous behavior, and he can break the law as well as obey it."

"Ha. So who's chaotic evil?"

"Hmm... it's hard to say," Mark replied, "Like some of the monsters Kolchak encountered? There weren't many opportunities for chaotic evil characters to appear on TV shows in the 1970s."

"I don't quite understand," Berry stretched out her hoof and tapped the screen in front of her. "Part of the camp is to choose good or evil."

"That's right," Mark replied, "Or you can choose to take neither side. That corresponds to 'neutral'."

"But the other part is to choose to obey the law or not," Berry said, looking a little confused, "Isn't it always good to obey the law?"

“In some cases the law may unfairly favor one person at the expense of others,” Mark explains. “Or the law may have unintentional consequences, such as allowing someone to steal food. Five years in jail or something like that.”

CherryBerry shook her head. "You humans are so weird," she said. "You need more princesses. Their wisdom can ensure that all laws are good."

"If you had stayed in Canterlot longer," Spitfire muttered in Pony, "you wouldn't have said such things."

Fireball stared at the screen and tapped his chin, "Then," he thought for a moment, and finally asked, "Which camp does Letterman belong to?"

time flies.

"Grizzly Adams is not neutral good!" Berry insisted, "He is chaotic good! He even moved to the mountains to escape the law!"

"But he's a druid!" Starlight Glimmer insisted. "A druid must be neutral in some way! That's the rule in our version of the game anyway, and I'm pretty sure it's the same here! "

"Then let's just say he is in chaos! He doesn't look like the kind of guy who would go out of his way to save people!"

Time continues to fly.

"How can Fred Sanford be considered evil! He is indeed greedy, but just wanting money is not evil! And he also wants to take care of his son!"

"Speaking of Lamont," Spitfire interjected, "is there a 'lawful idiot' camp?"

Mark smiled, "Some people have also proposed a theory in this regard..."

Time is still flying by.

"Cletus Hogg?"

"Evil idiot."

"Danny Partridge?"

"Chaos idiot."

"Richie Cunningham?"

"Lawful idiot."

"Mr. Foley?"

"Really stupid." Everyone agreed.

They paid no attention to the opening that night.